ELEMENTS OVERVIEW OF A MULTIMEDIA SUITE OF APPLICATIONS WITH REVIEW OF IMPLEMENTATION TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

Enormous amount of multimedia content generated in recent time, presents an organizational challenge. Multimedia Internet services and social networks offer a level of organization, editing and sharing of content, while the users rely on hierarchy of a file system with its limited attribute set in the area of off-line use. This article focuses on a different solution of media organization targeted for a desktop platform, using a DBMS system for classification, improved attribute set and search mechanisms. This solution allows for richer set of attributes and creation of custom ones, keywords mechanism and versatile search system. It enables usage of external storage devices in a way that media do not need to be physically present in the system to be searched for, or referenced in projects. Multimedia application connectivity model provides an integrated data access and simplified content sharing. There is a discussion of implementation details of system modules, their coordination and communication. The solution is focused on Microsoft Windows operating system with C++, COM, and ATL as development technologies of choice.